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German group demonstrates security flaw in eBay

March 13th, 2008 No Comments

AuctionBytes has an in-depth piece up on a security vulnerability in how eBay handles scripts in auction pages. A German watchdog organization, Falle-Internet.de, demonstrated the exploit this week. The vulnerability allows scammers to capture a wealth of information about an eBay user that visits an auction with the malicious script in it:
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